Humans are born with brains 'prewired' to see words
Humans are born with a part of the brain that is prewired to be receptive to seeing words and letters, setting the stage at birth for people to learn how to read, a new study suggests. Analyzing brain...
View ArticleCut chores and kill chill time: New advice to boost children's academic...
Determining a child's best daily balance of sleep, activity and relaxation can be a challenge, but if you're hoping to improve their academic results, then it's time to cut back on chores and chill...
View ArticleConflicts in kindergarten can reduce children's interest in reading and math
Teacher-perceived conflict predicts lower interest and pre-academic skills in math and literacy among kindergarteners, a new study shows.
View ArticleLearning pathways could guide children who miss best start to improved...
A study of 7,000 children shows that the early talk and communication experienced when very young, while essential preparation for school, does not directly impact on literacy skills by age 11....
View ArticleTeacher quality scores change depending on students, school
School districts across the U.S. are increasingly using student test scores to rate the effectiveness of teachers, but a new study found that the scores have less to do with individual teachers and...
View ArticleLearning a new language changes the brain's division of labor
Learning a language later in life changes how the two halves of the brain contribute. As skills improve, language comprehension changes hemisphere specialization, but production does not, according to...
View ArticleHow we learn words and sentences at the same time
How people work out the meanings of new words has been revealed by researchers, who say this is similar to the way in which young children learn language. The researchers said: ''A lot of what infants...
View ArticleResearch unlocks new information about reading through visual dictionary in...
The uniquely human ability to read is the cornerstone of modern civilization, yet very little is understood about the effortless ability to derive meaning from written words. Scientists have now...
View ArticlePreschool program linked with better social and emotional skills years later
A preschool enrichment program helps boost social and emotional skills that still have positive effects years later during middle and high school, according to a new study.
View ArticleBook helps identify risks of reading difficulties in preschoolers
A study expands validation evidence for a new screening tool that directly engages preschool-age children during clinic visits to assess their early literacy skills. The tool has the potential to...
View Article'Explicit instruction' provides dramatic benefits in learning to read
When it comes to learning to read, new research suggests that explicit instruction -- a phonics teaching method in which the relationship between sound and spelling is taught directly and...
View ArticleRead to succeed -- in math; study shows how reading skill shapes more than...
These findings clearly demonstrate how the cooperative areas of the brain responsible for reading skill are also at work during apparently unrelated activities, such as multiplication, suggest that...
View ArticleInternet-access spending improves academic outcomes, according to study of...
Increased internet-access spending by Texas public schools improved academic performance but also led to more disciplinary problems among students, a study of 9,000 schools shows.
View ArticlePicking up a book for fun positively affects verbal abilities
A new study shows that the more people read any kind of fiction the better their language skills are likely to be. Researchers found that people who enjoyed reading fiction for leisure and who...
View ArticleDifficulty learning nonsense words may indicate a child's high risk of dyslexia
A combined brain-scanning and behavior study has explored dyslexia in 7 & 8-year-old children learning how to read. Dyslexic youngsters were shown to have different activation in the left...
View ArticleMeasurable changes in brain activity during first few months of studying a...
A study with first-time learners of Japanese has measured how brain activity changes after just a few months of studying a new language. The results show that acquiring a new language initially boosts...
View ArticleInfants' language skills more advanced than first words suggest
Babies can recognise combinations of words even before they have uttered their first word, a study suggests, challenging ideas of how children learn language. Assessments in 11-12 month-olds show that...
View ArticleNew model to help identify risk factors for reading difficulties in children
Researchers have developed a model to help identify risk factors for reading difficulties in children before kindergarten age.
View ArticleMultilingual people have an advantage over those fluent in only two languages
Multilingual people have trained their brains to learn languages, making it easier to acquire more new languages after mastering a second or third. In addition to demystifying the seemingly herculean...
View ArticleDo school-based interventions help improve reading and math in at-risk children?
School-based interventions that target students with, or at risk of, academic difficulties in kindergarten to grade 6 have positive effects on reading and mathematics, according to a new article.
View ArticleInteractive typeface for digital text
Researchers have developed a computer font that adapts its appearance based on the user's interaction with the text. ''AdaptiFont'' measures a user's reading speed and interactively changes the font's...
View ArticleCombination of early reading programs helps with kindergarten readiness
A new study shows the combination of two early reading programs had positive effects on preschool students entering kindergarten.
View ArticleFlickering screens may help children with reading and writing difficulties,...
Children with reading and writing difficulties who are presented with text on screens with flickering white noise both read better and remember what they have read better, according to a...
View ArticleHandwriting beats typing and watching videos for learning to read
Though writing by hand is increasingly being eclipsed by the ease of computers, a new study finds we shouldn't be so quick to throw away the pencils and paper: handwriting helps people learn certain...
View ArticleLearning by doing: How the brain's motor system can support vocabulary learning
Neuroscientists present new findings on how the motor cortex can help learn foreign vocabulary more quickly. The new data suggests that learning techniques that involve the performance of gestures...
View ArticleExtra spacing can boost children’s reading speed
A new study has found that a child's reading speed can be improved by simply increasing the space between letters within a piece of text. The study discovered that text with increased space between...
View ArticleIncome inequality can harm children’s achievement in maths – but not reading,...
Inequalities in income affect how well children do in maths -- but not reading, the most comprehensive study of its kind has found.
View ArticleStudents who self-identify as multilingual perform better in exams
Young people who consider themselves 'multilingual' tend to perform better across a wide range of subjects at school, regardless of whether they are actually fluent in another language, new research...
View ArticleThis is how we understand emoji
Even when emoji are used to substitute for words, we still understand the sentence. But how does that work? Do we interpret an emoji primarily as an image or as a word? To find out, a research team...
View ArticleRare African script offers clues to the evolution of writing
Writing evolves to become simpler and more efficient, according to a new study based on the analysis of an isolated West African writing system.
View ArticleLearning through ‘guided’ play can be as effective as adult-led instruction...
Teaching younger children through 'guided' play supports key aspects of their learning and development at least as well - and sometimes better - than the traditional direct instruction they usually...
View ArticleEarly English lessons have lasting effects
An earlier study had raised doubts about the effectiveness of learning English in the first grade. Now, researchers have observed that it improves language performance over an extended period of time.
View ArticleHow left brain asymmetry is related to reading ability
Researchers report that two seemingly opposing theories of language processing are both correct. The study shows that greater left-brain asymmetry can predict both better performance and average...
View ArticleEven in a virtual classroom, preschoolers can gain reading skills
A new study finds that children can develop key reading skills in a virtual classroom with other students.
View ArticleGirls' chance of success at school in Sub-Saharan Africa shaped by language...
A new report argues that efforts to increase girls' participation in education in different parts of Africa should assess the detrimental effect teaching in English is having on learning.
View ArticleWhole-body learning can boost children's letter sound recognition -- the...
Children who move while learning sounds of letters significantly improve their ability to recognize individual letter sounds.
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View ArticleResearch shows why some children may be slower to learn words
A new study investigates where toddlers look when they learn new words. It finds that children with larger vocabularies looked quickly towards objects when learning new words. Meanwhile, children who...
View ArticleKnowledge of building blocks of words plays an important role when deaf...
An understanding of how words can be broken down into smaller units of meaning plays a key role when deaf and hard of hearing children learn to read, analysis shows.
View ArticleNo evidence grammar school systems are best for the brightest, study of...
The UK's brightest pupils' chances of getting top GCSE grades are actually lower in grammar schools than in comprehensives, according to a major new piece of research.
View ArticleStudy examines role of working memory, cognitive functions in English...
A new study has examined the role of several cognitive functions in young students learning to write English, their second language. The study conducted a battery of cognitive tests, gauged the writing...
View ArticleGrouping English learners in classrooms yields no benefit in reading...
Grouping English learners together in classrooms, a longstanding practice in schools, has no impact -- positive or negative -- on reading development for elementary school students, shows a new study...
View ArticleExtra practice blending letter sounds helps struggling readers
New research has shown that extra practice in blending printed letter sounds can help struggling beginner readers (age 4-5) learn to read.
View ArticleComplex, unfamiliar sentences make the brain's language network work harder
Sentences with greater linguistic complexity are most likely to fire up a key brain language processing center, according to a study that employed an artificial language network.
View ArticleNavigating the 'big little leap' to kindergarten
No matter how well children are prepared for kindergarten, their transition to the classroom during the first few months plays a key role in their success, a new study suggests.
View ArticleEarly vocabulary size is genetically linked to ADHD, literacy, and cognition
Are genetic factors underlying children's language development linked to later-life outcomes? In a genome-wide analysis, an international research team found genetic associations between children's...
View ArticleStudy reveals unexpected literacy in autistic people who cannot speak
About one-third of autistic people are unable to communicate using speech, and most are never provided an effective alternative. However, a new study suggests that many of these individuals are...
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